Carlos gets some press off-track:
âsocial media appears to show Sainz talking with police and passersby in the aftermath of the botched robbery.â
So I guess we know what the Ferrari strategists from the past few seasons are doing now. 
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Ouch. Poor furrari. The Williams of group 1. Nice colors, tho.
Yeah thatâs my understanding of Neweys role too.
What heâs always been excellent at is working out the key bits and the grey areas and creating something magnificent. Given his thesis at university was on ground effect cars in the early 80s he had a slight head start on much of the grid as ground effect hadnât been used since then. He recognized (or just knew) that a stable platform is key to a ground effect car and focused on the suspension design. Wasnât great for Max at the beginning (of 2022) but heâs adaptable.
I think, and based on his book and other interviews, he likes to empower his direct reports to make design decisions and whips out his note pad and sketches ideas with them if he feels they need a little guidance.
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My opinion: Any car on track during a green session should be driven within 80% of qualifying pace at all times. This crawling on track trying to get a position is just asking for a big accident, especially on temporary concrete canyon tracks with limited visibility.
Itâs hard to believe that the many times overly safety conscious FIA allows cars to creep around towards the starting line.
It was great hearing the crowd cheer when Lawson displaced Verstappen.
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That was fun! Go Haas! Interesting to see the Red Bull struggle. Wonder if Ferrari can hold this pace all race with the heat. Also impressive by Lawson, I like him.
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Reminiscent of 2015 when Merc just dropped pace massively at Singapore for little to no reason. I guess this could be related to the TD, but itâs such a huge deficit in pace itâs very weird.
Stroll has to go now, dude canât perform
Fat chance of that with Daddy in charge!
Looking forward to the race tomorrow, could be fireworks with George and Carlos first lap.
Still maintain that F1 need to look at Indycar safety crews, Stroll was sitting there for a long time until safety team or marshalls arrived.
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Thinking hard how to tell Dad that he just crashed his very expensive car.
Yep, Fernando is definently the favorite son now.
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I think weâre getting close to a point where you might expect a father to start asking whether itâs worth it, but I expect him to be there as long as his dad is there.
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Poor george
Classic case of target fixation for George there. Lando brushed the wall and George followed him right into it.
What a tense final stint and a masterful drive by Sainz! Held Lando in DRS to defend from the cars behind and managed his tires brilliantly all race.
When his engineer came on and said âLando 0.8 back in DRS rangeâ and Carlos said âI know, itâs on purposeâ, I immediately thought of Top Gun:
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Master class by Sainz! Looks like RBâs tire strategy went out the window with the the VSC. What transpired between Checo and Tsunoda? Minimal coverage on the incident.
Great drive by Sainz and Norris. Leclerc got screwed by the slow pitstop and missed a podium.
On that note, what is happening to Leclerc? The car seems to not suit him at all (Leclerc likes a pointy car and the 2023 Ferrari is the exact opposite). Seems like Ferrari are insisting on making Sainz their no1 driver, I do not recall the last time a driver on virtually the same pace as his teammate ahead was told to slow down to hold back the rest. Itâs one thing to tell him to not attack, but this was shocking. Itâs really weird how he was able to take a podium in Spa, where he looked like the âoldâ Leclerc, and suddenly started struggling again. I mean, we clearly saw Leclerc is faster than Sainz when the car suits him, so someone inside Ferrari (or Sainzâs camp most likely) is trying to âslow downâ Leclerc. A driver doesnât lose his form like that after 4 weeks. Interesting to point out that Leclerc is also a Singapore specialist, which makes it even weirder that he got beaten by his teammate (who was half a second per lap slower there last year).
Russell threw away 61 laps of effort in 1 corner by clipping the outside wall on entry in a left handed corner. It was such a stupid crash, it seems like the fact that he is getting beaten by an out of prime Hamilton is getting into his head (he crashed in Canada trying to stay with the cars ahead as well). Hamilton was surprisingly faster in race pace despite getting outqualified by nearly half a second, I think he could have won the race if he didnât throw away his qualifying.
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It was nice to actually have a race today where any one of four drivers could win.
More of thisâŚ
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Great race today, well done Carlos! Pretty sure if Lewis would have been in front of George for those last 13 or so laps he would have got at least Lando. Nice to see a race with alternative tyre strategy albeit thrown up from the VSC.
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